Railway cross-tie.



-No. 897,612.- PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908.

E. G. GAY, DE'D.

J. M. GAY, EXEOUTRIX. RAILWAY GROSS TIE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY6,1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPHINE M. GAY, OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK, EXECUTRIX OF ELISHA G. GAY,DEGEASED.

RAILWAY CROSS-TIE Specification of Lettersfglatent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that ELIsHA G. GAY, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Oneida, in the county of Madison and State of New York,invented new and useful Improvements in Railway Cross-Ties, of which thefollowing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of railway cross-ties which areformed from steel bars of the desired shape in cross-section im.

parted to said bars in rolling mills in the usual and well known manner.And the invention consists in novel devices for securely anchoring thetrack-rails to thecross-tie as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a side view of a crosstie embodying the invention; Fig. 2 isa plan view of the same in the plane indicated by the dotted line -0-0-in Fig. 1 5 Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line -X-X- in Fig.2; Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line -Y-Y-; Fig. 5 is ahorizontal section on `the line -Z-Z- in Fig. 3 Fig. 6 is an enlargedplan view of the railgripping lever, and Fig. 7 shows a modification ofthe invention.`

-adenotes the crosstie which is preferably -T- shaped in cross sectionand has the end portions of its horizontal web or top member deflecteddownwardly as shown at -alto shed the rain-water from the ends of thetie and guard against the entry of said water under the tie.

The end portions of the vertical web of the tie are bent laterally atright angles from opposite sides of said web as shown at #a2- to formtransverse walls which are embedded in the ballast of the road bed andserve to prevent the crosstie from shifting endwise and also formlateral supports for both sides of the tie. The downwardly deflected endportions a1- bear on the tops of the walls F0.2- and brace said walls toresist outward strain received from the ballast under the tie.

tegral with the tie by portions of the top member of the tie being slitlengthwise a distance equal to the length of the jaw and forming theside edges b1-b15- of said jaw, and a transverse slit extending from oneend of one of the longitudinal slits to the corresponding end of theother of said slits, forms the end edge We of the jaw, which is made toproject from the top of the tie by the free end portion of the jaw beingbent up from the plane of the top member of the tie.

To securely retain the rails -r-runder the jaws -b-blevers -d-dareemployed which are suitably pivoted to the top of the tie in proximityto the rails as shown at -fpreferably by means ofgrivets passing throughthe levers and top member of the tie and headed on their ends. Each ofthe levers ddis formed with a j aw -gwhichbears on top ofthe innerflange of the rail rand extends to the stem of the said rail and isformed with a tooth -twhich projects from the end of` the jaw -gand iscaused to bite the stem of the rail bythe movement of the lever Z- whenswung at its inner end or long arm in one direction preferably towardparallelism with the crosstie. The joint action of the jaw -gwith thejaws -b-bsecurely holds the rail -rin its required position on thecrosstie'. The lever -dis retained in its said rail-gripping position bymeans of a suitable anchor -hconnected to the end of the long arm ofsaid lever and formed with a hook --1/- by which it engages the side ofthe tie or the edge of the top member of the crosstie as shown in Fig. 4of the drawings. lf desired to reduce the cost of the rail fasteningdevices a single anchor may be connected to both levers as shown in Fig.7.

The anchor is preferably formed from a rod bent hookshaped at one endand having its opposite end screw-threaded and passing through an eye ifin the lever '-dand provided with a nut n which allows the said anchorto be adjusted in 'its length as may be found necessary to securely hdldthe lever in position to cause its jaw -gto eifectually grip the rail-r-. It ispreferred to elongate the nut sidewise so as to afford it along bearing on the tie and thereby revent the nut from accidentallyturning anld working loose on the anchor.

What is claimed as the invention is 1. The combination, with thecross-tie and rails mounted thereon, of rail-gripping levers pivoted tothe tie and provided with eyes on their free ends, an anchor having ascrewthreaded end passing through said eyes, and a nut on said anchorformed with an elongated bearing engaging the tie.

2. A railway orosstie consisting of a steel bar formed T-shaped incross-section` and having rail-gri ping jaws formed integral withthetie-an engaging the outer flanges of the rails, levers pivoted to thetop of the tie in proximity to the rails and formed with jaws engagingthe inner ilanges of the rails, and with teeth biting the stems of therails,

and anehors connected to the ends of the long arms of the levers andformed with hooks engaging the side of the tie. Syracuse, N. Y. July 61908.

